Reading Blog Post 2 - Hope For the Book

I have started reading more of the book Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson and this week it has not gotten any better really, but i do have hope for it! The author is just taking a while to introduce everything, which is actually well written, but just not interesting. This is why I think the book will get better; this and the fact that James Patterson, i've heard, is a wonderful author. There are numberous characters and it is fun getting to know each and every one of them. They all seem so different, but also they all seem to have a big secret. I don't know what this is yet, but there is a lot of foreshadowing.

So far in the chapters that I have read this week, I have noticed that intertwined into the chapters there are mini chapters that have confessions about Tandy's parent's murder. So far these have not told me much of anything, but that her brother has lots of anger for his parents. A quote from the book supports this. "He latched on to the trophy, like Matty should hand it over. 'Remember, you owe everything to us,' he went on. 'Your speed, your strength, your endurance. Your career. Your money.' That did not go over well with Matty. To say the least. 'I didn't ask for what you gave me,' he said through clenched teeth. He slammed his fist on the dining room table and I jumped as a crack appeared, sure his fist was going to get  sliced to ribbons. Matty was so angry I don't think he even wou;d have noticed. 'You created each and every one of us to live out one of your freakish childhood fantasies!" You see, Matty had just won the Heisman trophy and this quote from the text makes me think that his parents are some sort of weird people programming their kids. Or not that, but something like it.

They have a robot in their home that they created to look and talk like a human and it almost looks real. So could it be that the robot (Robert) could just be a prototype to their children? Also Tandy says in one of the confessions that she came home screaming that her parents had killed her sister. Could they have done that? Could they have been mad that their first child was not perfect? Tandy did say on page 16, "Our parents wanted us to be perfect." Could the murder of their parents had been for revenge on what they had done to their children? I will have to read on.